Zhang Zikang – Director of Today Art Museum

Today Art Museum has been dedicated to contemporary art in China, actively participates in and promotes the development of Chinese contemporary art. Constructing the best contemporary art museum of the world is our goal. We pay attention to Chinese contemporary art, to establish a multi-cultural platform. Among the constant emergence of the influential artists in Chinese contemporary art, Wu Mingzhong is one of the most important one.
Wu Mingzhong’s painting has transformed his particular language manner into a series of concepts, conveying a specific concept of paradoxical relation between? painting’s language and notion. Vulnerability is the objective attribute of human beings, Wu Mingzhong takes the vulnerability and transparency as artistic language of painting to explore and challenge the humanity, while the transparent glass portrait is a intuitive delivery of the fragility of life and the world. Wu Mingzhong has employed the individual experience in his painting to? challenge and analyze the life circumstances in reality, that reflects an ultimate concern of cultural merit, and expresses a profound care of human life and individual identity. The integration and hybridity of painting’s language and concept have corresponded with the specific patterns in globalization and information-age, representing the new trend of painting in 21st century.

From the painting language of Wu Mingzhong, under the influence of Western modern art and the notion of post-modernism, the growing emergence of various new artistic phenomenon, more and more Chinese contemporary artists have been able to get out of the imitation of Western Artists, to probe into the paradox and exchanging of Western primary language and the oriental culture,? broadening the horizon and involving in more in-depth practice of art.

Fake Authenticity
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Wu Mingzhong Solo Exhibition
Curator: Huang Du?
Wu Mingzhong is one of most important and influential artist in recent years. From his fragile emotional experience, He has stumbled upon the glass as a medium to reflect the psychological connection of man, with the conversion of concept he has transformed it into a new artistic language - the fragility and transparency. The language became the aesthetic core of Wu Mingzhong’s painting, it not only reflects the analysis of people’s fragile psychology, but also presents the implication of transparent sociology. If we say that the former evokes more personalized feeling on visual perception, then the latter is more emphasis on the analysis of social system.
Recently, he has also tended to quest the significance of transparency, subjectively he has extended the direct or indirect implication of glass? transparency, which has associated with the democracy, freedom, supervision, openness, commonality and affiliation, the reasonable efficiency of transparency became a surgery to the community– public opinions, supervision and mandatory rules, had disclosed and eliminated the villainous root that? comprises the dictatorship, manipulation, conspiracy, crime, concealment and corruption. In fact, Wu Mingzhong has expanded the transparency to the contrast of toughness and fragility, falsity and authenticity, his paintings have clearly delivered the contrast – contradiction and conflict, solid and crispness, toughness and fragility, freedom and dictatorship, justice and conspiracy, kindness and evil. All of these are result from his ingenious and dynamic management of artistic language.

Wu Mingzhong’s painting has some sort of intermixed characters, so it is difficult to define the attributes of its style, which undoubtedly represents a sort of mood of new painting in 21st century.